A Prayer to the Shoulder Wound of Christ

While Saint Bernard was the first to venerate the Shoulder Wound of Christ, he was not the last. Saint Padre Pio kept a devotion and also suffered the same wound himself as a stigmata. When Pope Saint John Paul II was still a priest he visited Padre Pio and asked him which wound was his most painful. Father Wojtyła expected that it was his chest wound, but the saint replied: “It is my shoulder wound, which no one knows about and has never been cured or treated.”